America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
“It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.”
“I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.”